1. How to find articles in the library

2. Or…navigating the e-world of scholarly materials

3. In the old days, it was pretty simple (if tedious)…

4. You checked an index (in print),

5. You looked up the topic you were researching… “mannerism”

6. And found a good article

8. OK, first it’s important to “read” the citation

9. This is an article entitled “Bacchiacca: mannerist with perfect manners,” written by G. Rosenthal, published in Art News, volume 59, January, 1961, pages 42-44.

10. (Most of the old indexes had abbreviation guides at the front)

11. So, your only question in your quest for this article was, “Did the library own Art News ?

12. So, you checked the catalog…

14. Looks good….

15. Keep going…

16. Just one more screen…

17. Ta da!

18. The ever-handy “pink sheet”

19. Has a guide to call numbers and the floors they’re on…

20. All N’s (N-NZ), or art materials, are on the 9 th floor

21. So you’d go up to that floor….

22. Find the bound volumes of Art Journal…

23. Locate the volume on the shelf…

24. Find the right issue…

25. Turn to page 42…

26. And, voila!

27. I know…pretty exhausting, eh?

28. Fortunately, you live in the 21 st century!!

29. Where everything’s online! (Well, almost…..)

30. Most of our indexes are now online

31. And so are more & more of our journals

32. Take, for example, Art Index Retrospective…

33. It contains the complete Art Index from 1929 to 1984.

34. Searching for “mannerism” here brings up 157 “hits”

35. Suppose you wanted to look at number 8

36. Again, whether online or in print, you have to “read” the citation

37. TI: Studies in the history of tapestry 1520- 1790 Renaissance and MannerismAU: Standen,-E.-ASO: Apollo (London, England) ns 114 July 1981. p. 20-8DE: Raphael,-1483-1520DT: Feature-Article Standen,-E.-A

38. Author: Standen,-E.-AStanden,-E.-A Title: “Studies in the history of tapestry 1520-1790 Renaissance and Mannerism.” Journal: Apollo (London, England) Crucial info: number 114, July 1981, p.20- 28.

39. Same question as before; Do we own Apollo?

40. Once again, you could look it up in the catalog…

41. Or, let the magical software do it for you!

42. You see, we have a software called “SFX”

43. Which sits between whatever database you’re using and the catalog

44. It searches our catalog to see if the book or article you’re looking at is in the Five College system

45. If you click here

46. (UM Links is UMass’s SFX tab; each of the Four Colleges has its own colored tab)

47. This is the screen you get….

48. Since the first link is for the Five College catalog

49. The software has found it in our system, Go ahead and click…

50. It brings up our catalog record

51. ISSN = International Standard Serial Number Like ISBN= International Standard Book Number, it’s just a way to identify journals or books.

52. So it looks like we have Apollo, both in print and online…

53. Let’s go online first!

54. Start clicking…

55. Just one more screen…

56. Here we are!!

57. Uh oh…bad news

58. If you look carefully, you see that it’s available in “e-form” only from 2003 on…

59. The article we wanted was published in 1981 TI: Studies in the history of tapestry 1520- 1790 Renaissance and MannerismAU: Standen,-E.-ASO: Apollo (London, England) ns 114 July 1981. p. 20-8DE: Raphael,-1483-1520DT: Feature-Article Standen,-E.-A

60. This happens a lot; many journals have only been digitized for short periods

61. Still, remember that we do have the journal you need in print

62. And you can get it the “old” way…

63. Let’s switch databases & topics…

64. The leading index in world history is Historical Abstracts

65. Here’s its search screen

66. Let’s search for Leonardi da Vinci

67. Quite a few hits!

68. This search provides us with lots of good examples of different ways of accessing articles

69. Number 2, for example, has an html link to a full- text article

70. One click brings up the full text

71. You can print, download, or email the text

72. You can even export it to a bibliographic management software

73. Like RefWorks, which the library provides free to all faculty, students, & staff

74. (Click here to set up an account)

75. Let’s go back and look at, say, number 5

76. OK, you’ve read the abstract, so go back out to the previous screen…

77. And click on the SFX link

78. Looks like the article we want to see is available full-text

79. Click Go

80. You’re taken right to the article. You can look at it in PDF format or in HTML

81. Voila!

82. Let’s do just one more…

83. Let’s say, that for some reason, you want to read this article (in Italian)

84. Again, you would click on the SFX link

85. This time, the software tells you we DON’T own the journal

86. Because the first link that appears is for Interlibrary loan…

87. In which case you’d use that library service, known as ILL, to get the article

88. For a full explanation of how to use ILL, go back to the libguide home page

89. And click here

90. This has been a quick orientation to finding articles. There are lots of variables…

91. We access databases from all sorts of vendors, with different websites and search screens

92. Sometimes the SFX software will take you right to the article….

95. Other times it will take you to the journal’s list of issues…

96. Which you must then open…

97. To get to the table of contents and then the full text.

98. Yes, it can be complicated and sometimes frustrating

99. But, remember…

100. You can always use the catalog to double-check a journal’s availability & format

101. Or, when in doubt….

102. ASK A LIBRARIAN!!!

103. Written by Peter Stern pstern@library.umass.edu